Autobiography Of A Face

ANew York TimesNotable Book "This is a young woman's first book, the story of her own life, and both book and life are unforgettable." --New York Times "Engaging and engrossing, a story of grace as well as cruelty, and a demonstration of [Grealy's] own wit and style and class."--Washington Post Book World This powerful memoir is about the premium we put on beauty and on a woman's face in particular. It took Lucy Grealy twenty years of living with a distorted self-image and more than thirty reconstructive procedures before she could come to terms with her appearance after childhood cancer and surgery that left her jaw disfigured. As a young girl, she absorbed the searing pain of peer rejection and the paralyzing fear of never being loved.

• | Author: Lucy Grealy
• | Publisher: Harper Perennial
• | Publication Date: Sep 13, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
• | ISBN-10: 0544837398
• | ISBN-13: 9780544837393